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I am a reporter, & also own a small ranch. This blog was started to give me the opportunity to express things I couldn't in print, especially on spiritual matters. In this way, I neither compromise my journalistic objectivity, nor step on any professional toes.
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The gospel reading for this Sunday was the Parable of the Talents: Fr. James explained how talents weren't really money in the conventional sense, but giant gold ingots that would weigh over 80 pounds. He also said that he had looked up their value in contemporary terms, & discovered that each would have been over $600,000, or considerably more than the average servant would earn, perhaps in a lifetime. Hence, the Master was giving them something quite valuable. I do feel that have been given so much; only hope that I'm adequately returning that which has been given.
Achilles had his youth group meeting prior to last night's mass (our usual 7pm attendance). He wound up sitting with the youth group people afterwords--he was afraid that I might've been upset, but I actually prefer him doing that, as I think he both gets more out of it & also is more likely to participate in the liturgy of the word (singing & response) whilst with others. Poor Artemis was stuck with me & didn't much like it.
It turns out that the person I'm sponsering, Alex, was there last night, also. Would have invited to sit with Artemis & me, but he was with another RCIA candidate, April, who is blond, just turned 21, & therefore I figured he might not want to sit with us.
Have to start preparing for CCD class today. Last week, we discussed the Transfiguration & the Suffering Servant (from Isaiah). I'll miss Carolina, as she joins the RCIA class tomorrow (which means I'll still see her, but will miss her fresh & penetrating questions in CCD). Had recommended that she be moved up, as she's older than the other CCD students, both chronicologically & mentally.
::: at 10:32
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